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Ghost in the machine?
Greetings, I am a full-time writer with (soon to) be eighteen novels in print. The first five were handled by a mainstream publisher, after which I joined a cooperative with other writers. We founded...
To avoid the original issue of the page margins of the template being changed, exclude the final paragraph mark in donor document from the text that you copy. to be pasted into the template.
- Thank you, helpful advice.
- Forgive a foolish question; The donor text is 400 pages or so; I usually copy this with Ctrl/A. Is there a similar shortcut for all but the last line, or is it necessary to hold down the mouse from the penultimate line and scroll through to the start?
Sincerely grateful for assistance (and again, would value any recomendations for a solid manueal).- Here are two methods, which I've tested in Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Windows 10:
1. Click Ctrl/A, then hold the Shift key and press the left arrow key once. This places the curser before the last character in the document.
2. Click at the beginning of the document, before the first character. Then scroll to the end (without holding shift--you can drag the scroll bar to the end with your cursor) and click before the last paragraph.
